15-21 June marked Rail Safety Week 2026, with events across the country focusing on rail safety for all and sharing ideas and best practice.
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Friday 12 June 2026 saw the official launch of the first Bridgewater Line Community Comic Mural at Atherton Station, a project delivered by South East Lancashire Community Rail Partnership (SELCRP), using funding from train operating companies Northern and CrossCountry Trains.
[Read more…] about Bridgewater Line Community Comic-art Mural launched at Atherton StationCommunity Rail Week 2026
It was an eventful Community Rail Week 2026 (1-7 June) for South East Lancashire Community Rail Partnership (SELCRP), with the theme of this year’s celebrations being ‘Journeys For All’. Community Rail Week is an annual event coordinated by Community Rail Network and sponsored by Rail Delivery Group, designed to raise the profile of Community Rail and champion projects and activity across the country.
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On Wednesday 27 May 2026 a ‘Write About Wigan’ poetry anthology, compiled by South East Lancashire Community Rail Partnership (South East Lancashire CRP), was launched with a special event at the Swan and Railway Hotel in Wigan.
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South East Lancashire Community Rail Partnership is pleased to announce a new Food, Drink and Rail History blog, researched and written by Community Rail Officer Emily Oldfield. Hosted as a dedicated tab on the website, the blog will be a dedicated place to explore a people’s food culture – a communal history of food and drink, and how it has impacted, as well as been influenced by, rail.
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We all have to eat and drink… it’s a subject that involves everyone. It also says a great deal about who and where we are, and in this brand-new blog, Community Rail Officer Emily Oldfield is intent on exploring food history, how it has shaped us, and how it too has been shaped by transport (especially rail!) and trade.
England – and indeed the north of England where this Community Rail Partnership is based – has a rich, varied and multi-layered food heritage that is often under-celebrated. This blog will examine food history and how it links to regional identity, as well how train travel has changed the food we eat… both on and off trains! Dining cars now seem to be a heritage rather than everyday feature of the rails, but once were big business, and will be the subject of later blog posts.
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